Hysteria

Imagine a world without fear. Would there be peace among nations? One would hope. However, this is a world full of fear, which generates mass hysteria. For example, there has been periods of mass hysteria in the United States with the latest caused by the 9/11 attacks. In response to these attacks, Americans have debated whether they should have national identification (ID) cards. Some American citizens support the idea of everyone carrying a national ID card, but this can be a dangerous…

America’s participation in global issues (wars) has resulted in changes for several groups of Americans whether political, social, and/or economic. These changes have had their effects on those/that group/s of Americans, and the American society in general. One war in particular, which has had it’s own devastating effects on Muslims, Sikhs, and anyone who resembles a person of Middle Eastern descent. this war is the “War on Terror.” It can also be argued that this war has even affected non-Arab…

naked. Abigail claims that she was trying to practice witchcraft to get John Proctor’s wife Elizabeth killed. To avoid getting in trouble for practicing witchcraft, the girls accuse others of witchery so that they could clear their name. In all the hysteria, it…

demonstrated a case of female hysteria on Rose Brown to his class. She was an innocuous woman, who was driven insane by her sexually addicted husband, and protested that she was sane. “Touché!”... “All mental patients claim to be sane, just as all criminals claim to be innocent”, emphasized the professor. He advised his students to believe nothing that they heard and only half of what they saw. To them they saw a hysterical lunatic, but to Edward Star (another hysteria case who murdered his…

book details how series of witchcraft cases brought before local adjudicators in a settlement called Salem, a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony, caused many innocent people to be accused of crimes they had never committed. The Salem Witch Trial hysteria caused by fear of the witchcraft, political and social anxieties, changes in the roles of women, and…

Do you believe in Satan, the devil, or even witches? In the years 1692-1693, in a town called Salem, two-hundred people were accused of being witches, and twenty of those people were executed. Many other places such as England were very religious at the time. The Witch Trials were caused by the fear of the devil and anyone associated with him. Not only were women incriminated as witches, men were accused too. Modern day witch hunts continue to be a superlative example of man’s inhumanity to man,…

important throughout a piece of literature because the ideas expressed show the morale of the story, or the lessons being portrayed. These ideas connect to anyone and everyone in the story, while some are more evident than others. False accusations, mass hysteria, and confession can lead to injustice is a main theme in The Crucible. One way false accusations and confession can lead to injustice is through different characters…

The Crucible Arthur MIller’s play,”The Crucible,” portrays the characters to all have some sort of hysteria or mob mentality about witchcraft. There’s a big question though. Are the girls faking this witchery? Or is it real? Everyone is pointing fingers. Even though,”The Crucible,” is just a play, it still presents the history of the dread and dismay of witchcraft that caused many deaths. The source for all the scapegoating and other phenomenons is the townspeople. At the start of…

anticommunist movies … Moreover, urged that film scripts be changed to remove references to less-than-praiseworthy aspects of American history” (Foner NA). Hollywood created propaganda movies such as the Red Menace and Red Nightmare; thereby, generating hysteria among Americans. These movies represented American exceptionalism and promoted anti-communism. Many moviegoers left the theater feeling patriotic and harboring a strong distaste for communist societies, especially the…

new wardrobe, and develop relationships that she would later not recall. The people around Sybil also witnessed extreme changes in mood, style, talents, maturity and even accents. The professor she opened up to about her blackouts claimed she had hysteria, or a wandering uterus as the ancient Greeks believed was…